• lauha@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.

    This ruffles my feathers. Disregarding servers where Linux has near monopoly, surely Linux is installed on more devices and has more users than OSX? OP is clearly counting only desktop users

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      8 days ago

      Same here, also all embedded system on linux + smartphone. I guess the author meant desktop usage. Still I am very unsure about the world at large. This is north-American take.

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      7 days ago

      Linux is the second-most popular descendent of Unix, the first being OSX.

      Linux is not really a descendant of Unix. It is a Unix clone, but its roots do not trace back to Unix.